"The
long silence, the vast silence, of the forest had only three sounds—the
voices of the two poets and the sound of Dante's feet. Now 'the secret things—segrete
cose' begin to sound. Silence is broken. As they pass the arch, they come
into an air 'senza tempo tinto—tinted without time', dark and unchanging."
— Charles Williams, source : tinted with
out time, the fearful sphere, the layers collapsed : senza tempo tinto :
the gate